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An Alabaster Box

Author
Mary Eleanor Wilkins Freeman
Read by
Raphael Croft
Language
English
Length
6 hours 18 minutes
ISBN
9781836100249
Published
7 January 2026
Imprint
Fractal Press
  • small-town life
  • minister
  • poverty
  • church fair
  • moral conflict
  • social expectations
  • ambition
  • romance
  • community dynamics
  • mystery

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Description

Young minister Wesley Elliot struggles with poverty, ambition, and romance in Brookville until enigmatic Lydia Orr buys the whole church fair and unsettles the village’s careful balance. Love, money, and belonging press from every side. Spoken as when an alabaster box still asks what a gift can buy in a town that watches every coin.

Author

Mary E. Wilkins Freeman (1852–1930) grew up in Randolph, Massachusetts, and wrote the New England village as if every parlour were a theatre of will. A New England Nun is the famous short weather of a woman who will not be hurried into marriage; Pembroke is the same climate at novel length — pride, church, and a stubbornness that can freeze a town. She later took the Howells Medal. The regional is never small in her hands. Thrift has a pulse.

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